2 May 2016
GDWGL Proposes Monitoring Framework for Voluntary Land Tenure Guidelines
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The Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL) has published a policy brief highlighting the experiences of platform members in implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT).

Titled ‘Donor Land Group's Position on Taking Stock of VGGT Implementation,' the brief aims to contribute to a planned stocktaking exercise by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) at its 43rd Plenary Meeting in October 2016.

globaldonorplataformApril 2016: The Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL) has published a policy brief highlighting the experiences of platform members in implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). Titled ‘Donor Land Group’s Position on Taking Stock of VGGT Implementation,’ the brief aims to contribute to a planned stocktaking exercise by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) at its 43rd Plenary Meeting in October 2016.

The policy brief describes the Donor Platform’s three-year road map covering the period 2014-2017, which aims to generate comprehensive data on VGGT implementation, since its adoption by the CFS in May 2012. The brief discusses: a USAID-led online database, the ‘Land Governance Programme Map’; a pilot project to catalyze multi-stakeholder collaboration at the national level, while building the capacity of national actors to design, implement and report on VGGT-related programmes; and financial support to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) to develop technical guides and learning programmes to foster adherence to the VGGT among private sector investors, such as the Analytical Framework for Land-based Investment in African Agriculture.

Among its recommendations for enhancing future monitoring of the VGGT, the policy brief calls for: verifying and expanding the Land Governance Programme Map; developing a monitoring framework to enable periodic reporting of VGGT implementation; and linking VGGT reporting with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) monitoring frameworks at the national level, notably for targets under SDG 1 (End poverty in all its forms everywhere), SDG 2 (End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture), and SDG 15 (Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss).

The Global Donor Working Group on Land brings together 24 bilateral and multilateral donor agencies and international organizations. Described as “the only resource so far that attempts to aggregate and enhance access to VGGT-related programming worldwide,” the Land Governance Programme Map currently contains information on 714 projects in 134 countries, with a total value of US$8.4 billion. [Publication: Policy Brief No. 13, April 2016: Donor Land Group’s Position on Taking Stock of VGGT Implementation] [Land Governance Programme Map] [Publication: Analytical Framework for Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture] [Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Website]


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